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Academic and Social Experiences of Exchange Students from Japan Attending an American University
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Sato, Takahiro; Hodge, Samuel R. – College Student Journal, 2015
The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the views of exchange students from Japan about their sojourn experiences at an American university. The participants were eight exchange students from Japan (four males and four females). This descriptive-qualitative study was conceptualized within sojourner theory (Siu, 1952). The data…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Experience, Student Exchange Programs, Surveys
The Assessment Competence of University Foreign Language Teachers: A Ukrainian Perspective
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Kvasova, Olga; Kavytska, Tamara – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This article considers the assessment challenges and prospects faced by foreign language teachers in Ukrainian universities in the context of the country's joining the Bologna Process. A major problem relates to adapting higher education to a common framework designed to facilitate comprehension and comparison of the content and outcomes of degree…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Higher Education
Chinese Placement Procedures at U.S. Postsecondary Institutions
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Wei, Miaochun – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quant-QUAL sequential explanatory mixed methods study describes a framework for evaluating the communicative competence (Canale & Swain, 1980; Canale, 1983) of non-beginner students of Chinese for placement purposes at U.S. four-year postsecondary institutions. A pragmatic lens was used to collect and analyze data that generated a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Rhetoric and Realities: On the Development of University-Wide Strategies to Promote Student English Language Growth
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Dunworth, Katie; Drury, Helen; Kralik, Cynthia; Moore, Tim – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
This article describes the results from a national project that investigated institutional approaches to the development of student English language capabilities in Australian higher education. The project aimed to identify the various approaches and strategies that higher education providers have established and to gauge whether they have been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Placement of English as a Second Language (ESL) Student Learners in Higher Education
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Banegas, Michael R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Immigration into the U.S. will continue to increase in the coming years, thereby increasing the postsecondary enrollment of ESL students. Yet there is still a limited amount of research designed to evaluate which ESL placement programs are most effective. This study was designed to determine if the use of correct testing instruments would ensure…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Placement, Language Tests
Are Full-Time MBAs Performing?
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Rowland, Caroline Ann; Hall, Roger David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
Full-time MBA students amount to about one-third of the 26,000 students enrolled on MBA programmes at UK universities. The programmes have become increasingly international in student composition and concerns have been expressed about performance, quality and comparability between programmes. Research into predictors of MBA success has been…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees